About the work

Joel Wyllie’s drawings are distinguished by multiple lines that teem, swarm and gather into forms that are significant for the artist. The myriad lines he lays down seem to grow out of the paper and resemble the beauty of the natural world, such as fish scales or the feathers and eyes of birds. Wyllie’s drawings play with illusion and perception and are simultaneously stage sets relating to lived experiences and portals to another, unknowable and unnameable world.

Date and country of birth

1986, GB

Career Highlights

Wyllie’s work is held in public and private collections including Saatchi Collection, Simmons and Simmons, and Hogan Lovell’s.

Selected exhibitions include:

Drawn Out, Drawing Room, London (2021);

Return to Naught, Kingsgate Project Space, London (2021);

Material Wood, Messum’s Wiltshire, Salisbury (2018).